The Northern Utah CWMA
Facilitating collaborative land management to get stuff done
The mission of the Northern Utah Cooperative Weed Management Area is to facilitate the collaboration between stakeholders within the northern Utah region for the purpose of increasing the identification and control of noxious weeds. We believe that -together- we can protect and improve Utah’s natural resources.
What exactly is a CWMA?
A Cooperative Weed Management Area, known as a CWMA, prioritizes improving noxious weed control within designated areas. CWMA’s utilize a variety of Integrated Weeds Management procedures to control and maintain weeds through cooperative efforts and resources of multiple departments and agencies across jurisdictional boundaries. Often CWMA’s are able to secure substantial government funding because the scope of projects can be increased to include weeds across federal, state, county, municipal, and private properties.
Working Across Borders
Our Objectives
Working together to help our community
Northern Utah CWMA is a partnership consisting of government organizations, non-profits, private businesses, and private citizens who work to improve cross jurisdictional collaboration, facilitate acquisition of funding to support noxious weed management and ecosystem restoration and implement noxious weed control using the most current science.
The organization strives to be a resource for our local community.
Strategic Plans
Maintaining strategic noxious weed control and land restoration plans based on integrated weed management practices and other relevant science.
Reducing impact
Supporting land use actions that improve natural resource health, wildlife habitat, water quality, agriculture, and human health while also controlling noxious weeds.
Grant Resources
Seeking grant sources to support noxious weed control and noxious weed impacted lands restoration plans and outreach initiatives.
Collaboration
Promoting coordination of programs and resources to optimize impact while minimizing the duplication of efforts. We improve the capacity of each partner when we work together toward a shared goal.
Habitat Restoration
Improving habitat restoration strategies throughout and adjacent Northern UT by incorporating research, partnerships, land management practices and monitoring into projects to produce effective, repeatable results .
Education/Outreach
Harnessing the power of our community by educating and incentivizing participation.
Current Leadership
Where We Work
Our primary work is within the 6 northern counties in Utah, inclusive of Utah Conservation Districts 1 and 2. However, we recognize that noxious weeds know no borders. As a cross jurisdictional partnership, we remain open to projects beyond our current project boundaries when new partnerships and project areas will expand our capacity to make meaningful impact on noxious weeds and enhance habitat quality.
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Since 2018, the Northern CWMA has brought in over $550,000 to the Northern Utah area to map, control and monitor noxious weeds and restore ecosystems impacted by weeds.
Our Partners
